hear, hear! i love florida. it ain’t what it used to be.
that was really fucking crazy. we made it through without a single insurance claim! and where i live was mostly devastated.
the next one… i don’t know if we will be so lucky. my boat and my truck are better covered than my home. i can only hope that the neighbor’s tree falls on them, rather than the house, we might get relief.
Thanks. I was thinking about this exact types of owners when I wrote about the string attached thing.
Also I hope all those pearl-clutching about “socialism” would kindly reject the aids in order to not violate their principle. /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S
I’ve been trying - and failing - to come up with a way of saying “fuck you” to the sorts people buying those $170 million properties (and, ideally, the people selling it to them, too) that wouldn’t also screw over everyone else. I fear it’s too late to start mandating, for instance, that sellers inform buyers that they’ll be left holding the bag when it all goes belly up (especially in the sorts of states that officially don’t allow anyone to acknowledge climate change).
Oh, but it’s never socialism when they get the money, though. (We see this over and over again - rich people getting massive bail-outs and then the same individuals publicly insisting that the poor and middle class shouldn’t also get bail-outs, because socialism.)
I foresee Florida trying to require insurance companies to provide insurance options and control the rates.
You know they’re not gonna do state issued insurance. So, nothing like forcing the invisible hand when it’s expedient.
I predict Ron somehow trying to make Disney “go first” or have “major corporations subsidize the citizens” or something.
To all the Florida BBers: have you started considering moving to a saner and safer state?
I know it’s not easy, emotionally or financially or otherwise practically to uproot yourself and move to a place far away; and I’m sure it’s not feasible for many people, here on BB or in general.
But looking at things from my Nordic PoV, Florida is starting to look more and more like it will be devastated in some disaster sooner or later, and I would like there to be as few people caught in it as possible.
Meteorological, political a/o climatological, this is a given. And highly unlikely to be only once. I am reminded of the scene from Airplane, with folks lining up to beat the crap out of the woman.
I rent a house that is thankfully kept at a decent price by the owner - was lucky with Ian, had some tree limbs down but it was just south enough not to fully hit me - never seen that much water in the 8 years I’ve lived here though.
Irma got a new roof put in on my place.
Where available, rising insurance rates will make coastal housing unaffordable for many and will likely force a migration inland or Northward.
i’m not leaving.
call me stubborn. call me stupid. there is no other place for me.
i will die here.
“that’s all I have to say about that.”
06:26
Stubborn in Stiltsville
As long as you evacuate when they say it’s time to evacuate good luck sir.
I had a coworker who’s brother had a houseboat in the Keys and refused to evacuate for Irma. Called her as it was bearing down to say goodbye. It was heartbreaking.
Florida already has Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (the insurer of last resort), and is one of 33 states that have this option, called the FAIR Plan. It’s not good coverage, and you will typically need another insurer to get full coverage, but it is a state-issued insurance.
Get soaked; go broke?
The invisible hand of the free market had decided:
Nature is healing
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